Composer of the Week - Purcell's Contemporaries - Episode 2

Donald Macleod surveys the brilliant generation of composers that first emerged as choristers at the Chapel Royal after the Restoration, including a musical spy and a heartbroken composer who shot himself on the toss of a coin. Purcell: Hear my prayer Alastair Ross (organ) Monteverdi Choir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) ERATO 2292-45987-2 Tr 6 John Blow: No, Lesbia, you ask in vain (Elegy on the death of Queen Mary) John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo) Timothy Roberts (chamber organ) HYPERION CDA66646 Tr 18 Matthew Locke: Be thou exalted, Lord Choir of New College, Oxford The Parley of Instruments Edward Higginbottom (conductor) HYPERION CDA66373 Tr 8 Pelham Humfrey: O Lord my God Charles Brett (countertenor) Martyn Hill (tenor) David Thomas (bass) Michael Lewin (lute) Marilyn Samson (cello) Alastair Ross (organ) Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) ERATO 2292-45987-2 Tr 7 John Blow: I was glad when they said unto me Robin Blaze, Ashley Stafford (countertenors) Mark Le Brocq (tenor) Andrew Dale Forbes (bass) Rogers Covey-Crump (high tenor) Choir of St Paul's Cathedral Parley of Instruments John Scott (conductor) HYPERION CDA67009 Trs 16-20 Jeremiah Clarke, arr. Simon Preston: Prince of Denmark's March Simon Preston (organ) DECCA 430 091-2 Tr 5.